Editorial Procedures and Notes for Authors

Editorial policy

Provide a forum for exchange of information pertaining to sustainable use of natural renewable resources in integrated farming systems in the tropics and sub-tropics.

Assist scientists in developing countries to prepare their research findings for
publication.

Disseminate relevant research results rapidly, and in easily accessible
format, by making maximum use of electronic communication media

To this end the journal publishes both full-length papers
and short communications (posters) describing the results of research that
relate to the theme of sustainable rural development. Guidelines for the
preparation of papers and posters are given in the section on Notes for
Authors.

Submitting papers and posters to LRRD

Papers and posters should be sent by E-mail to the Senior Editor trpreston@mekarn.org.
If acknowledgement is not received within two weeks then authors should send a
reminder to the Senior Editor with details of the file names and dates sent.

The papers can be written with the aid of any of the principal word processing
software programs and should be sent by e-mail as an attachment and with "LRRD" in the subject line. Email messages with attachments and unknown subject lines are not opened in view of virus risks.

Editing papers for LRRD

The procedure is as follows:

Papers are coded (date of
receipt [month/date/year] and first 4 letters of senior author surname) by the
Senior Editor and sent immediately to
the associate-editors (or in some cases directly to two
reviewers). The associate-editors are responsible for selecting reviewers and
following the progress of the paper, to and from reviewers and authors.
Associate-editors on the basis of advice from reviewers, and their own assessment,
will recommend:

Acceptance
of the paper as submitted, or after suggested changes

Rejection
as not suitable for LRRD or because of inferior quality

The responsibility of the reviewers is:

To assess
the paper and to report within 1 to 2 weeks on the technical content and,
where necessary, to suggest ways in which the interpretation and
presentation of the data might be improved.

Reviewers' comments are received by the
associate-editors who communicate with authors regarding any proposed changes. The
associate-editors return the accepted papers to the Chief Editor who, together
with the assistant editor, finalize the editing, and format
the paper in "html".

The edited versions of the papers are then posted on the
UTA Web Page so that authors can revise the formatted papers (a restricted URL
is sent to the author for this purpose)

Responsibility for posting the papers on the Home Page of
LRRD is with CIPAV (Hector Osorio)

Notes to Authors

The principle tools for publishing the journal are now:
Corel Office 2000 (Word Perfect), Lotus 123, Microsoft Office XP or 2000 (MS
Word and Excel) and Star Office 5.2. These are the preferred formats for
receiving papers and posters.

Authors should examine carefully recent papers and posters
in the journal and follow the style currently in use.

Body of Text

- Use the font "Times
New Roman" 12 pt.
- Do not use full word capitals for titles nor for names of authors.
- Include your e-mail address below your postal address in the Title
- Indicate the Keywords after the Abstract in alphabetical order
- Separate the Titles and associate-titles from the previous and next lines by an
empty line, using the ‘return’ or ‘enter’ key
- Separate each paragraph by an empty line, using the ‘return’ or ‘enter’ key
- Make sure the paragraphs are aligned to the left not “justified”
- Avoid to use an indent in the beginning of each paragraph

In text and tables:

Ensure that numbers contain only three
digits after or before “000... ”
Eg: 234.214 becomes 234
1.2367 becomes 1.24
0.00032176 becomes 0.000322
for R2 only two digits after or before “00... ”
eg: R2 = 0.677 becomes R2 =
0.68

Graphics:

Where possible, please always supply the original
spreadsheets and data which were used to produce graphics in the papers, since
this allows us to produce a uniform look and maintain the quality of the
finished journal.

Tables:

Please format using the Table menu, and not Tabs and
Spaces
- when using the tabular format please allot a new cell to each piece of
data.
- include the title of the table as well as the notes at the bottom of table inside
the Table itself not in the body of the text.

References:

They should be set up with minimum punctuation but maximum
detail of the actual citation. Abbreviations of journal titles should not be
used. In the list of references, citations to "Livestock Research for
Rural Development" should include the appropriate "URL" for the
article. For example, for papers published prior to 2004, the citations are of
the following format.

Check that this URL is correct
and functioning by clicking on it: it should lead you to the Web site.!

PLEASE:

- Use the Spell-Check tool in order to correct any
spelling mistake, and

- Ensure that references in the text are in the
reference list and vice versa.
An easy way to check this latter point is to print the reference list and then
from the beginning of the text to use the "FIND" command and type "19"
and then "20". This will locate all the references assuming
you have cited correctly the source including the date.